O português kimbundizadu: uma análise de alguns dos enunciados da obra os conto de ukamba kimba

Phutu ni Kimbundu: Kuzambula kwa mikanda imoxi ya kibandu kyalungu ni misoso ya Ukamba Kimba

Abstract

This article aims to describe some of the linguistic marks of Kimbundu in the lexicon of Portuguese spoken in Angola, present in the work The Tales of Ukamba kimba (2013). It highlights the main characteristics and specificities of the mother tongue as opposed to Portuguese, justifying the occurrence of words from the Kimbundu lexicon, morphological and syntactic rules that specify the use of the non-mother tongue by Angolan speakers. To this end, the consequences caused by the contact between languages is discussed, as well as the linguistic strategies adopted by speakers as attempts to eliminate the inevitable linguistic conflict. It also discusses some of the factors that affect the transfer, the influence, the assimilation and linguistic interference of one language over the other, for example: factors such as the lack of mastery of the Portuguese language, the legally instituted imposition of that language, that for most Angolan speakers it is not their mother tongue, and the need for social ascension. Finally, it is argued that the occurrences of Kimbundu marks in Portuguese are not to be considered as "errors" or "deviations" in relation to the Portuguese grammar, but as language facts.